2008 – Page 19

The Emergency Operations Center (COE) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) have expressed their concern about the fact that most of the population does not understand the emergency alert system; the different levels of alerts and the action that needs to be taken in each case. COE director Colonel Juan Manuel Mendes and UNDP …

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Much to the delight of most drivers on the island, fuel prices have gone down once again, making it nine weeks in a row. This week the prices of gasoline, diesel, aviation fuel and propane gas were all reduced, in some cases substantially. Premium gasoline fell by RD$9.30, regular by RD$8.20, regular diesel by 5RD$5.90, …

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The Supreme Court of Justice has ruled that property owners can set a time limit on rental contracts. The court said that the ruling that prohibits property owners from setting a limit to the rental contract violates the Constitution. The explanation is that the ruling dates back to the 1950s when owners right to limit …

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Economist Pavel Isa Contreras said that he felt that the budget submitted to the Congress by the President leaves a clear impression that development and economic and social change in the Dominican Republic not on the government’s agenda. He explained that the budget structure is basically the same as the 2005 budget, the year in …

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The president of the Dominican Exporters Association (Adoexpo) says that outside of free zone exports, the DR exports more to Europe than to the US. Ricardo Koenig of Adoexpo said that the European Union imported 29.33% of all Dominican exports, while the US imported 26.47%. Koenig says these are good times for Dominican exporters to …

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Falconbridge Dominicana has let go hundreds of its workers, but they understand that for this reason they should provide more assistance to the community, including supporting municipalities in repairing rural roads and leveling fields for agriculture. The Falcondo Foundation sponsors 129 schools in Bonao and La Vega. Luis Rosario, representing the mining company that belongs …

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The head of the Catholic Church in the Dominican Republic, Nicolas de Jesus Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez, has called for much stiffer sentences for people linked to drugs and drug trafficking. The Cardinal spoke after celebrating Mass at the IX National Ultreya, a group of the faithful from all of the nation’s dioceses. Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez …

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The Penal Chamber of the Santo Domingo Court of Appeals has sentenced former Deputy Environment Minister Rene Ledesma to six months in jail and the payment of 10,000 minimum salaries for allowing the dumping of 50,000 tons of rock ash (fly ash) in Samana. Judges Olga Herrera, Hirohito Reyes and Dario Gomez Herrera, accepted the …

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Violent deaths registered an increase of 320 cases in the first nine months of 2008 in comparison with the same period in 2007. Between January and September 2008, there were 1,807 homicides, and last year there were 1,487. This information is contained in a report by the Prosecutor General Office’s Statistics Department that shows a …

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The National Police reports that the two members of a police patrol who detained a Haitian national and stole EUR37,000 from him, will be dishonorably discharged, stripped of their uniforms and led out of the Police headquarters before a full assembly of the troops tomorrow morning. The information was released by police spokesperson Colonel Nelson …

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